The WHO recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes will be useful for people working across the health sector, from health-care workers who directly provide care to pregnant women and preterm infants, to health-care policy makers and programmers, as well as those working on the development of job aids and training tools for health-care workers.
Good Publication Practice for Industry-Sponsored Medical Research
Scientific and clinical research should be reported in a complete, accurate, balanced, and timely manner to ensure a well informed decision making and increase the efficiency and quality of health care. Such research is often initiated by, or involves collaboration with, commercial organizations, such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies. The Good Publication Practice (GPP) guideline … Continue reading Good Publication Practice for Industry-Sponsored Medical Research
Standalone teaching vs. clinically integrated teaching of EBM
standalone teaching improves knowledge, but has no effects on skills, attitudes, or practice. Whereas clinically integrated teaching improved knowledge, skills, attitudes, and practice
Fundamentals of Clinical Trials: a scholarship opportunity
There are major steps that one must navigate successfully to take an idea of a clinical trial and turn it into a publication that may have an impact on clinical practice. These steps include conceiving the study question, developing the study plan, implementing the study plan, analyzing data, reporting the results and submitting the manuscript for publication. … Continue reading Fundamentals of Clinical Trials: a scholarship opportunity
Systematic reviews of Interventions, August 2015
Solving the problems of your own systematic review and meta-analysis with peers Apply NOW The workshop will focus on the practicalities of conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. It will use a problem-based learning approach in which each group of participants brings a specific topic for a systematic review to discuss, justify, revise and conduct. Mentor: … Continue reading Systematic reviews of Interventions, August 2015
Systematic reviews of Interventions, June 2015
A step-by-step approach to learn the skills of conducting a systematic review on 4-June-2015. Who can attend: Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmacy Mentor: Prof. Ashraf Nabhan For scientific information please contact the team of facilitators Dr Heba Ghanem: hebaghanem14@gmail.com Dr Mona Shaaban: dr_mona_sh@yahoo.com Dr. Ahmed Alaa Kolkailah: kolkailah_ahmed@yahoo.com Dr Khalid Shalaby: khalid.shalaby@gmail.com Marina Aziz: marina.nashed92@gmail.com Yosra Salem: yosrasalem922@gmail.com Yousef Fouad: yousef.a.fouad@gmail.com Registration … Continue reading Systematic reviews of Interventions, June 2015
Systematic reviews of Interventions, May 2015
This Professional Development training day takes a step-by-step approach to the tasks of conducting a systematic review on 14-May-2015.
WHO Statement on Public Disclosure of Clinical Trial Results
On April 14, 2015, the World Health Organization published a new statement on the disclosure of clinical trial results. In the latest version of the Declaration of Helsinki it is stated that "Researchers, authors, sponsors, editors and publishers all have ethical obligations with regard to the publication and dissemination of the results of research". Failure … Continue reading WHO Statement on Public Disclosure of Clinical Trial Results
Tip of the Day: Measurement scales
Measurement scales can be classified according to the types of operation they allow to be undertaken. There are four types of measurement scale: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. These scales are mentioned in a particular order, such that each scale type includes all the properties and characteristics of the preceding ones. Nominal scales are thus … Continue reading Tip of the Day: Measurement scales
Mission Possible: A Valid Diagnostic Research
Background: In current medical practice, new diagnostic tests are developed and introduced at a fast rate. A rigorous evaluation of diagnostic tests before introduction into clinical practice is imperative. Several potential threats to the internal and external validity of a study on diagnostic accuracy exist. As in any other type of research, flaws in study … Continue reading Mission Possible: A Valid Diagnostic Research
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